Monday, May 10, 2010


Hello everyone and welcome to the kick off day of the Cougar Growls Blog Tour to celebrate the release of Total E-Bound’s newest anthology Cougars and Cubs (Romance between older women and younger men).

Featuring the artistic collaboration of erotica’s hottest authors Ashley Ladd, KS Augustin, Mia Watts, Catherine Chernow and Imari Jade.

First up is Imari Jade, author of “Something to be Thankful For.” Please introduce yourself and tell the readers something about your story.

Hi everyone, my name is Imari Jade and I hail from Marrero , Louisiana , sister city of New Orleans where I was born and raised. I’ve been writing for a number of years but this is my first release with Total E-Bound and hopefully not my last. I’m divorced, have three sons and six grandchildren and during the day I work as a financial analyst.

I’d like to share my take on an article I just read:

“Kick Ass” Cradle Robber: 19 year old star of Kick Ass is engaged to the 43 year old director of his last film and she’s pregnant with his child.

I was sitting in the office when I seen the story on the Internet. One of my coworkers is a male in his early to mid forties and the other is a male in his late twenties. Naturally they took the side of the 19 year old actor while I gave props to the 43 year old director. So when one of them asked me if I’d date a 19 year old I answered “Hell yeah.” (Relax folks, I’m only kidding). My three fantasy dream dates are Tom Welling, Orlando Bloom and Taylor Lautner. All three are gorgeous, sexy and full of stamina. What older woman wouldn’t be tempted when given the choice of them or a man our own age that have to use the little blue pill to entertain us? If a 30 year old wanted to spend some quality time with me I’d probably jump at the chance as soon as I checked out his medical history, his earning potential and his family background. 19 year olds are a bit young and inexperienced and we cougars are looking for someone to spend time with. Hell, you can’t take a 19 year old clubbing, you can’t reference anything before the nineties, and they don’t share their video games.


Something to be Thankful for by Imari Jade - Music manager Julianne Richmond life gets turned upside down when her musical prodigy Cameron Justice announces that he is in love with her. Normally she would be flattered but she’s in her forties and he is just a babe which in her book has the making of a bad love song.

Bad boy rocker Cameron Justice has everything…money, a beautiful mansion, expensive cars, and the lead in an upcoming movie. He is admired by women from all over the world and the envy of men. Spoiled and rotten to a fault, Cameron is used to getting his way. So when he confesses his love to his manager Julianne he naturally thought she would accept. Unfortunately, Julianne turns him down like a hot potato because he is too young for her and bruises his fragile little rock star ego. On one of his wild tirades Cameron packs up his things and leaves Hollywood .

Spurred by the mass hysteria of Cameron’s fans Julianne hops in a car and drives halfway across the country to bring his psychotic butt home. But once she finds him back in the sleeping little mountain town where he was born, dressed in tight-fitting jeans and a plaid shirt she discovers maybe having a sexy young blond mountain man might not be a bad thing.
Imari Jade is multi-genre romance and horror writer, and bit of a humorist. You can contact her through her website: http://www.imarijade.com/
Or at her blogs: http://imarijade.blogspot.com/ and http://www.myspace.com/imarijade
Buy Link:
http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=777

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Cougar Growl Blog Tour Update

Just a reminder:

Join me here tomorrow for the kickoff of the Cougar Growls Blog Tour and the release date of Total E-Bound's latest anthology, Cougars and Cubs.

Six of Total E-Bound's hottest romance writers are sheduled to appear:

May 10, 2010 - Imari Jade
May 11, 2010 - Elizabeth Coldwell
May 12, 2010 - Catherine Chernow
May 13, 2010 - Mia Watts
May 14, 2010 - K. S. (Kaz) Augustin
May 15, 2010 - Ashley Ladd

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=777

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Cougar Growls Blog Tour


Cougar Growls Blog Tour
May 10, 2010

Featuring Total E-Bound authors, Ashley Ladd, KS Augustin, Mia Watts, Catherine Chernow, Elizabeth Coldwell and Imari Jade

Join us in the celebrating the release of Total E-Bound upcoming anthology Cougars and Cubs (Romance between older women and younger men.) Stop by to just say hello or to leave a comment, or to tell us your take on the cougar and cub relationships.

Scheduled to blog:

May 10, 2010 – Imari Jade
May 11, 2010 – Elizabeth Coldwell
May 12, 2010 – Catherine Chernow
May 13, 2010 – Mia Watts
May 14, 2010 – KS (Kaz) Augustin
May 15, 2010 – Ashley Ladd

A joint blog production

Monday, April 12, 2010

Revisiting Old Prose

Revisiting Old Prose

I’m often asked where I find my story ideas. The answer is simple, they just pop into my head. I only remember suffering from writer’s block once, and now I think it’s was probably caused by stress. I always have something waiting to be completed, and one day I hope to get it all finished and published before I die. Time is my biggest adversary with family life running a close second. So yesterday I decided to revisit a manuscript I started last year. Why didn’t I finish it? I just simply ran out time. The basic leg work had been done, the characters were created, but only one-fourth of the story was written by the time the deadline for submission arrived.

So here I am with a July 15th deadline staring me in the face. Will I finish this time? Hopefully.

So where did I begin this time? First I printed off the forty-two pages I’d previously written and read over them with my trusty ink pen in hand to make corrections along the way. Boy am I glad that I didn’t attempt to send this story off last year. Everything needed to be redone. I think I developed some pretty great characters but they were lacking description and purpose. I found that out in the first paragraph. I needed to add some scenery and add transition to move them from one scene to the other. I really didn’t know how important this was to the story until a couple of weeks ago when my new editor beat my story “Cursed” to death with over 1100 comments on how to improve it. So after three weeks of moving from page one to four hundred and sixty I finally understood that people need to move, smell, hear and eat.

Show, don’t tell. That was hard for me to grasp but I think I finally have the hang of it. Example: Dave looked frighten.
Editor: How does frighten look? Describe the expression on his face. What is he thinking? What is his reaction?
Thank god for editors.

The fear ran through Dave’s body like an electric current. Sweat beaded on his forehead, his legs shook and his heart palpitated wildly in his chest as he stared into the eyes of the monster that wanted to devour him. (Not perfect but I’m writing thins on the bus on the way to a doctor’s appointment).

The idea is to make the reader feel that he or she is a part of the environment of the story. Don’t assume readers know what you mean to say. Spell it out; clearly…let them experience the fear.

This manuscript I’m revisiting is a Halloween story. It’s got a beautiful and charming heroine, two of three gorgeous heroes/villains, and a geeky female side-kick. Of course there is going to be a HEA but its missing something. It needs more conflict, more romance and a lot more showing.

So how do you start reworking a manuscript that you’ve put on the back burner for a while?
That’s simple. Find it, re-read it, and then polish it up. Finally, when it’s the best it can be submit it.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

New Cover Art


It's here. The new cover art for the Cougars and Cubs Anthology coming soon to Total E-Bound. Check it out. More on it later.


Saturday, March 20, 2010







Three New Book Covers



Coming Soon






Hell and High Waters, Moongypsy Press
Prophecy, Eternal Press
The Kiss of an Angel, Wild Horse Press










Monday, March 1, 2010

Calendar of Events - March

It's still cold as the North Pole down south in Louisiana and we're expecitng more rain and more cold today and tomorrow. That old groundhog was true to his word....enough already....bring on Spring.

Conferences - (Scheduled to attend)

Epicon 2010 - New Orleans, LA March 4-7, 2010
Romance Writers of America - Nashville, TN July 29-31

Coming Soon - Calendar of Events

"Hell and High Waters" - a horror tale - Moongypsy Press - May 2010
"Something to be Thankful for" - Erotic Romance novel - Total E-Bound - May 2010
"Prophecy" - Erotic Vampire novel - Eternal Press - June 2010
"In Love with a Dark Stranger" - Multicultural Romance - Midnight Showcase Fiction - July 2010
"Pharaoh" - Historical Romance - Siren Publishing - July 2010
"Bitter Fruit" - Yaoi Romance - Phaze - July 2010